Videos

Author Paul Hendrickson discussed his father’s World War II service as a fighter pilot who flew nighttime missions during the 1945 Iwo Jima campaign. This event was hosted by the Leon Levy C…

Journalists Peter Baker and Susan Glasser looked at the life and career of former White House Chief of Staff and Secretary of State James Baker. They spoke at the Miami Book Fair.

Nancy Thorndike Greenspan talked about her book, Atomic Spy: The Dark Lives of Klaus Fuchs, which looks at the life of the spy who gave the Soviets America’s plans for a plutonium bomb. The …

Historian David Reynolds provided a biography of Abraham Lincoln and looked at how societal influences impacted his life. This was a virtual event hosted by the Leon Levy Center for Biograph…

Historians Harold Holzer, The Presidency vs. the Press, and Ted Widmer, Lincoln on the Verge discussed their books on presidential history. This program was part of the 20th annual National …

Biographer Benjamin Moser talked about his book, Sontag: Her Life and Work, in which he recounted the life of the late public intellectual Susan Sontag.

George Packer talked about his book, Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century , on the life and career of diplomat Richard Holbrooke.

Andrea Barnet, author of Visionary Women:How Rachel Carson, Jane Jacobs, Jane Goodall, and Alice Waters Changed Our World;" David Blight, author of Frederick Douglass; and Andrew Roberts, au…

Ben Macintyre reported on a high-ranking KGB spy, Oleg Gordievsky, who worked for British Intelligence during the height of the Cold War. According to the author, it was Gordievsky’s intelli…

Miriam Pawel provided a history of California Governor Jerry Brown’s family and its connection to the state. She was joined in conversation by Governor Brown.

Robert Weil, editor-in-chief and publishing director of Liveright, received the 4th annual editorial excellence award presented by the Biographers International Organization. Following the a…

Biographer Vanda Krefft discussed the life and legacy of the founder of Fox Film Corporation in her book, The Man Who Made the Movies: The Meteoric Rise and Tragic Fall of William Fox. In th…

Taylor Branch talked about the challenges of researching and writing biographies. His trilogy on the civil rights era chronicled Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life and work during that period.